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« on: March 08, 2012, 11:00:47 am »

Flashback Malware: New Variant Changes Twitter Hashtags
      


We recently reported on how the Flashback malware was using Twitter as a command and control center, using a correspondence table between dates and four-letter strings, combining them to make twelve-letter strings. The malware sends HTTP requests to Twitter ever hour, searching for these hashtags, and only those tweets posted since the last time it [...]
      

http://blog.intego.com/flashback-malware-new-variant-changes-twitter-hashtags/
      
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